• Contact us
  • About us
  • Digital edition
Friday, April 23, 2021
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
  • News
    • All
    • The Raven
    Plans for £500,000 community centre revealed

    Matterdale community centre given green light

    Firefighters tackling large wildfire at Whinlatter Forest

    Firefighters tackling large wildfire at Whinlatter Forest

    Late night mercy dash to save four newborn kittens

    Late night mercy dash to save four newborn kittens

    History being made as COVID-19 vaccines rolled out

    Two-thirds of eligible population receive first coronavirus vaccine in Cumbria

    20 jobs at risk at the Lake District National Park Authority

    Lake District National Park Authority aims to become net zero by 2025

    Penrith traders react to first day of shopping post-lockdown

    Shoppers splurge in Eden as lockdown eases

    Brough Community Primary School’s new play area for pupils

    Brough Community Primary School’s new play area for pupils

    Woolfest to stay online for 2021

    Woolfest to stay online for 2021

    Plans mooted to ban horses and horse-drawn vehicles from Appleby’s Sands

    Appleby Horse Fair set to go ahead in August

  • Sport
    Greystoke jockey Danny McMenamin set to be crowned champion

    Greystoke jockey Danny McMenamin set to be crowned champion

    ‘If football no longer connects with people, then we cease to exist,’ Cumberland FA reacts to European Super League collapse

    ‘If football no longer connects with people, then we cease to exist,’ Cumberland FA reacts to European Super League collapse

    Cumbria Classic Weekend to return this year

    Cumbria Classic Weekend to return this year

    Grand National could be on the cards after big race win at 40-1

    Grand National: Takingrisks pulled up

    Grand National chance for Greystoke-trained Takingrisks

    Grand National chance for Greystoke-trained Takingrisks

    1,000 tee times at Penrith Golf Club

    1,000 tee times at Penrith Golf Club

    New Eden Valley Sports Partnership Manager wants to get as many youngsters active as possible

    New Eden Valley Sports Partnership Manager wants to get as many youngsters active as possible

    Eden Runners set to stride out together again

    Eden Runners set to stride out together again

    Four women set for 10 in 10 challenge to raise funds for MS Society

    Four women set for 10 in 10 challenge to raise funds for MS Society

  • Farming
    • All
    • Red Shepherdess
    Woman horse rider involved in A6 collision released from hospital – and raising money

    Horse show to raise awareness as part of Bart’s Legacy

    Ask the experts – common conditions to consider in livestock

    Ask the experts – common conditions to consider in livestock

    Spring pedigree bull sales return to the ring

    Spring pedigree bull sales return to the ring

    Introducing the Red Shepherdess. . .

    ‘It was a moment of pure joy, excitement and pride’

    Countryfile debut for 14-year-old Katie

    Countryfile debut for 14-year-old Katie

    Tim Farron re-elected as chairman of hill farming group

    Tim Farron re-elected as chairman of hill farming group

    Conservation efforts at Lowther paying off as spring arrives

    Conservation efforts at Lowther paying off as spring arrives

    10 Fix the Fells rangers appointed after more than 1,000 people apply

    10 Fix the Fells rangers appointed after more than 1,000 people apply

    Community in shock as Dufton farmer Hannah Brown dies aged 26

    Community in shock as Dufton farmer Hannah Brown dies aged 26

  • Property
  • Obituaries
  • Nostalgia
  • Recruitment
  • Photosales
  • Subscribe
No Result
View All Result
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
  • News
    • All
    • The Raven
    Plans for £500,000 community centre revealed

    Matterdale community centre given green light

    Firefighters tackling large wildfire at Whinlatter Forest

    Firefighters tackling large wildfire at Whinlatter Forest

    Late night mercy dash to save four newborn kittens

    Late night mercy dash to save four newborn kittens

    History being made as COVID-19 vaccines rolled out

    Two-thirds of eligible population receive first coronavirus vaccine in Cumbria

    20 jobs at risk at the Lake District National Park Authority

    Lake District National Park Authority aims to become net zero by 2025

    Penrith traders react to first day of shopping post-lockdown

    Shoppers splurge in Eden as lockdown eases

    Brough Community Primary School’s new play area for pupils

    Brough Community Primary School’s new play area for pupils

    Woolfest to stay online for 2021

    Woolfest to stay online for 2021

    Plans mooted to ban horses and horse-drawn vehicles from Appleby’s Sands

    Appleby Horse Fair set to go ahead in August

  • Sport
    Greystoke jockey Danny McMenamin set to be crowned champion

    Greystoke jockey Danny McMenamin set to be crowned champion

    ‘If football no longer connects with people, then we cease to exist,’ Cumberland FA reacts to European Super League collapse

    ‘If football no longer connects with people, then we cease to exist,’ Cumberland FA reacts to European Super League collapse

    Cumbria Classic Weekend to return this year

    Cumbria Classic Weekend to return this year

    Grand National could be on the cards after big race win at 40-1

    Grand National: Takingrisks pulled up

    Grand National chance for Greystoke-trained Takingrisks

    Grand National chance for Greystoke-trained Takingrisks

    1,000 tee times at Penrith Golf Club

    1,000 tee times at Penrith Golf Club

    New Eden Valley Sports Partnership Manager wants to get as many youngsters active as possible

    New Eden Valley Sports Partnership Manager wants to get as many youngsters active as possible

    Eden Runners set to stride out together again

    Eden Runners set to stride out together again

    Four women set for 10 in 10 challenge to raise funds for MS Society

    Four women set for 10 in 10 challenge to raise funds for MS Society

  • Farming
    • All
    • Red Shepherdess
    Woman horse rider involved in A6 collision released from hospital – and raising money

    Horse show to raise awareness as part of Bart’s Legacy

    Ask the experts – common conditions to consider in livestock

    Ask the experts – common conditions to consider in livestock

    Spring pedigree bull sales return to the ring

    Spring pedigree bull sales return to the ring

    Introducing the Red Shepherdess. . .

    ‘It was a moment of pure joy, excitement and pride’

    Countryfile debut for 14-year-old Katie

    Countryfile debut for 14-year-old Katie

    Tim Farron re-elected as chairman of hill farming group

    Tim Farron re-elected as chairman of hill farming group

    Conservation efforts at Lowther paying off as spring arrives

    Conservation efforts at Lowther paying off as spring arrives

    10 Fix the Fells rangers appointed after more than 1,000 people apply

    10 Fix the Fells rangers appointed after more than 1,000 people apply

    Community in shock as Dufton farmer Hannah Brown dies aged 26

    Community in shock as Dufton farmer Hannah Brown dies aged 26

  • Property
  • Obituaries
  • Nostalgia
  • Recruitment
  • Photosales
  • Subscribe
No Result
View All Result
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
No Result
View All Result

Home Nostalgia

This week in history – October 2

by CWH
12 October 2020
in Nostalgia
A A
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

25 years ago – 1995

Penrith

Penrith-based Cumbrian Industrials Limited have been awarded the first contract for the Whinfell Forest holiday village development.

Worth almost £1 million, the contract, awarded by the Rank Organisation, covers site preparation and preliminary infrastructure work. Work is scheduled to start within the next few weeks.

Troutbeck

Little Mell Fell, one of the last privately owned hills in the Lake District, has been bought by a Borrowdale farming family for £103,000.

ADVERTISEMENT

Situated to the south of the A66 Penrith to Keswick road near Troutbeck, the 203-acre property was purchased by Martin Weir and his sons Joe and Jason, of Highlore, Borrowdale, at a sale at Penrith Farmers’ and Kidd’s Skirsgill mart, Penrith.

Lazonby

The traditional annual “harvest of the fells” from Alston Moor and the northern hills resulted in Lazonby being the venue for the largest one day sheep sale in the country.

The sale of 26,801 Mule gimmer lambs began at 9.30am and continued non-stop for almost 12 hours, with auctioneers Gordon Teasdale, Stuart Bell and Richard Morris wielding the gavel in turn.

A renewed confidence in sheep and the end to the drought in the south of England resulted in the average price increasing by £4.82 on the year to £58.08.

Glenridding

One of the Lake District’s best known family farming partnerships are to give up their tenancy at Glencoyne, near Glenridding, at the end of this year.

Brothers George and Norman Wilson are ending a family association with the farm which goes back to 1928, when their grandfather, Richard Wilson, moved to Glencoyne from Wasdale Head in West Cumbria.

The farm was then owned by Lady Mabel Howard and was later acquired by insurance magnate Sir Samuel Scott, who gave it to the National Trust.

ADVERTISEMENT

Kirkby Stephen

Kirkby Stephen’s auction mart was filled with animals of a different sort to those usually seen there when the first dog and pet show in the town was held there.

The show was judged by dog lover Audrey Heaton and by Dick Frost, journalist and founder of the Kirkby Stephen Messenger. The organisers were Gill Alderson, Mary MacIntosh and Dorothy Dixon.

Skelton

More than 50 villagers attended a meeting convened by Skelton swimming pool committee at the Toppin memorial hall to debate the future of the pool.

Chairman Mrs. Barbara Hope said the pool had reached a crisis point and the meeting was to decide whether it should continue to operate or be dismantled and the area reinstated as a school playground.

Mr. W. R. Huntley, who for 25 years was head at the school, said it was his firm conviction that every child should be able to swim, and he described how a massive community effort had brought the pool into being 20 years ago.

50 years ago — 1970

Appleby

Condemned by the Government under a re-organisation plan, Appleby Assizes began on Monday morning for the last time — 714 years after the first recorded Assize held in Appleby Castle to settle a squabble over land.

The colourful ceremony of the Assize service, attended by the scarlet robed Judge and his officers in St. Lawrence’s Church, and the stately procession with the Judge in his Rolls-Royce over the River Eden to his Assize in the Shire Hall by the side of the busy A6 road, while traffic is held up, will be seen for the last time next week and large crowds are expected.

Brough

A sign of the times at the ancient Brough Hill fair was the fact that, although the gathering of North-country gypsies was well attended, with over 200 caravans and more than 1,000 people present, there was only a solitary horse!

And there were no horse-drawn caravans at all.

Shap

Mr. George Blenkinship, Lynedene, Shap, when taking up some of his potatoes for Sunday lunch, unearthed one weighing only half an ounce short of four pounds.

Sunday not really being a “chip day”, the potato got a reprieve and is now on view in the local butcher’s shop, owned by Mr. Tom Steadman.

Penrith

Members of the Penrith Co-operative Society have voted against a proposal by the management committee that the Society should amalgamate with other societies to form a Co-op to cover the whole county.

At a special meeting attended by 97 members, the voting was 83 against and only 14 for the proposal to amalgamate.

Penrith, in addition to town branches, has shops at Keswick, Braithwaite, Shap and Glenridding.

Clifton

The Department of Transport has reviewed the timing of the development of a motorway service area East of Clifton and decided to defer it indefinitely, state minutes of the Westmorland County Council Planning Committee.

It is proposed to leave the scheme in abeyance until the adequacy of the service areas at Southwaite, Tebay West and Killington can be assessed.

100 years ago — 1920

Penrith

The threatened strike by the street sanitation and refuse department of Penrith Urban Council has not come off, the Union having accepted an offer of 5s. a week on the men’s behalf.

The Rev. George A. Campbell Bell, Vicar of Tresmeer, Cornwall, son of Mr. William Bell, late of Argyll House, Penrith, has died, aged 52.

Before going to St. Edmund’s Hall, Oxford, he was educated at his father’s private school at Penrith, and in his early ministerial career Mr. Bell took services at Christ Church.

Askham

Parishioners of Askham and Helton have shown their appreciation of the services of Miss Gladys Maud Bamber, as voluntary organist at Askham Church, by publicly presenting her with a marble timepiece on the occasion of her marriage. Mr. Chas. Wheeler presided at the presentation.

Related Posts

Nostalgia

This week in history – April 17

22 April 2021
Nostalgia

This week in history – April 10

15 April 2021
Memories of Prince Philip in Eden
Nostalgia

Memories of Prince Philip in Eden

9 April 2021
Nostalgia

This week in history – April 3

8 April 2021
Nostalgia

Looking back through the photo archive – April

22 April 2021
Nostalgia

This week in history – March 27

1 April 2021
No Result
View All Result

Stay connected

Facebook Twitter Instagram

Most popular

Late night mercy dash to save four newborn kittens

Late night mercy dash to save four newborn kittens

23 April 2021
Spring pedigree bull sales return to the ring

Spring pedigree bull sales return to the ring

23 April 2021
Plans for £500,000 community centre revealed

Matterdale community centre given green light

23 April 2021
Woman horse rider involved in A6 collision released from hospital – and raising money

Horse show to raise awareness as part of Bart’s Legacy

23 April 2021
Tributes to Appleby greengrocer and junior football manager Sarah Parkin

Tributes to Appleby greengrocer and junior football manager Sarah Parkin

23 April 2021
Greystoke jockey Danny McMenamin set to be crowned champion

Greystoke jockey Danny McMenamin set to be crowned champion

23 April 2021
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald Logo
14 King Street
Penrith
Cumbria
CA11 7AH

Phone: 01768 862313
Email: news@cwherald.com

Registered in England no: 33217
VAT registration number: 256271948

Explore

  • News
  • Sport
  • Farming
  • Property
  • Obituaries
  • Nostalgia
  • Your view
  • The Raven

Useful links

  • Contact us
  • Recruitment
  • Photosales
  • Digital edition
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • About us

Follow us on

© Barrnon Media Limited 2020

Terms & Conditions / Privacy Policy / Cookie Policy

This website and its associated newspaper are members of the Independent Press Standards Organisation
IPSO Logo
No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Sport
  • Farm and Countryside
    • Red Shepherdess
  • Property
  • Obituaries
  • Nostalgia
  • Recruitment
  • The Raven
  • more
    • Photo sales
    • Subscribe
    • About us
    • Contact us

© 2020 Cumberland & Westmorland Herald